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  • Historical Linguistics

    An Introduction

    by Lyle Campbell ...

    $42.99 CAD

  • The Indigenous Languages of the Americas

    History and Classification

    by Lyle Campbell ...
    The Indigenous Languages of the Americas takes stock of what is known about the history and classification of these languages and language families. It identifies the gaps in knowledge and puts them into perspective, and it assesses differences of opinion. It also resolves some issues and makes new contributions of its own. The nine chapters of the book deal incisively with the major themes ... Read more

    $161.99 CAD

  • The Secret History of Language

    Language Change Unraveled

    by Lyle Campbell ...
    What are the causes of language change? Where do words come from? Is modern technology and social media corrupting our language? Language change is just as relevant today as it ever was, yet the secrets of how and why it occurs remain tantalisingly out of reach to anyone without a background in linguistics. This book has the answers. Written by one of the leading experts in the field, it provides ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Cataloguing the World's Endangered Languages

    Edited by Lyle Campbell, Anna Belew ...
    Cataloguing the World’s Endangered Languages brings together the results of the extensive and influential Catalogue of Endangered Languages (ELCat) project.Based on the findings from the most extensive endangered languages research project, this is the most comprehensive source of accurate information on endangered languages. The book presents the academic and scientific findings that underpin the ... Read more

    $96.99 CAD

  • The Languages of Native America

    Historical and Comparative Assessment

    Edited by Lyle Campbell, Marianne Mithun ...
    These essays were drawn from the papers presented at the Linguistic Society of America's Summer Institute at the State University of New York at Oswego in 1976. The contents are as follows:Lyle Campbell and Marianne Mithun, "Introduction: North American Indian Historical Linguistics in Current Perspective"Ives Goddard, "Comparative Algonquian"Marianne Mithun, "Iroquoian"Wallace L. Chafe, "Caddoan ... Read more

    $90.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Endangered Languages

    Edited by Kenneth L. Rehg, Lyle Campbell ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The endangered languages crisis is widely acknowledged among scholars who deal with languages and indigenous peoples as one of the most pressing problems facing humanity, posing moral, practical, and scientific issues of enormous proportions. Simply put, no area of the world is immune from language endangerment. The Oxford Handbook of Endangered Languages, in 39 chapters, provides a comprehensive ... Read more

    $168.79 CAD

  • Language Isolates

    Edited by Lyle Campbell ...
    Series series Routledge Language Family Series
    Language Isolates explores this fascinating group of languages that surprisingly comprise a third of the world’s languages.Individual chapters written by experts on these languages examine the world's major language isolates and language isolates by geographic regions, with up-to-date descriptions of many, including previously unrecorded language isolates. Each language isolate represents a unique ... Read more

    $148.99 CAD

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  • Dying Words

    Endangered Languages and What They Have to Tell Us

    by Nicholas Evans ...
    Series Book 22 - The Language Library
    The next century will see more than half of the world’s 6,000 languages become extinct, and most of these will disappear without being adequately recorded. Written by one of the leading figures in language documentation, this fascinating book explores what humanity stands to lose as a result.Explores the unique philosophy, knowledge, and cultural assumptions of languages, and their impact on our ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • An Introduction to the Languages of the World

    by Anatole Lyovin, Brett Kessler, William Leben ...
    Unique in scope, An Introduction to the Languages of the World introduces linguistics students to the variety of world's languages. Students will gain familiarity with concepts such as sound change, lexical borrowing, diglossia, and language diffusion, and the rich variety of linguistic structure in word order, morphological types, grammatical relations, gender, inflection, and derivation. It ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Areal Linguistics

    Edited by Raymond Hickey ...
    Series series Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
    Providing a contemporary and comprehensive look at the topical area of areal linguistics, this book looks systematically at different regions of the world whilst presenting a focussed and informed overview of the theory behind research into areal linguistics and language contact. The topicality of areal linguistics is thoroughly documented by a wealth of case studies from all major regions of the ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • Words of Wonder

    Endangered Languages and What They Tell Us

    by Nicholas Evans ...
    Series series The Language Library
    A gripping and moving text which explores the wealth of human language diversity, how deeply it matters, and how we can best turn the tide of language endangermentIn the new, thoroughly revised second edition of Words of Wonder: Endangered Languages and What They Tell Us, Second Edition (formerly called Dying Words: Endangered Languages and What They Have to Tell Us), renowned scholar Nicholas ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Evidentiality

    Edited by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    This volume offers a thorough, systematic, and crosslinguistic account of evidentiality, the linguistic encoding of the source of information on which a statement is based. In some languages, the speaker always has to specify this source - for example whether they saw the event, heard it, inferred it based on visual evidence or common sense, or was told about it by someone else. While not all ... Read more

    $219.19 CAD